Pneumatic horse-collar.



F. BATCHLER.

PNEUMATIC HORSE COLLAR.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 24, 1910.

1,063,407., Patented June 3, 1913.

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. To all it may concern-f l 3 e it known thatI FREnlBA roIinEu, a" c tizen of the UnitedSta-tes, residing at" Bomarton, inthe county of Baylor State of Texas-have invented certain new and useful Improvements in, Pneumatic Horse Collars; and 'I do hereby declare, the fol.-

- lowing to be a full, clear, and exact descripr gprovide the air sacks with inner iwalls'of tion off-the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it t pper tainsto make and use the same.

The object of the present invention. is .to

- greater flexibility than the outer walls, these inner walls permitting o't tlicollar con-- forming more comfortably to the an mals neck than usualcollars of this kind.

A further object of .the' invention is to l, provide each air saclrwith a waterproof cov- 25.

ering, this covering being loosely wrapped about the air sack and performing the dual function of minimizing heat conduction from the pocket walls to the sack and preventing access of sweat from the pocket wallsto the sack, thus obviating rotting of the sack ofthe pockets so that they will perform the function of guards for the air inlet openings of the sack and thereby prevent contact of the-valves with adjacentarticles. I .111 the accompanying drawings fornnng part of this spec fication F1gure.'1'1s a front elevation of a horse collar constructed v in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 1s a fronte'levation of one-of the sacks. Fig. 3 is a cross sectionalview taken on the line 3+3, 1; l 1 I I Referring now to the drawings, the collar is shown to comprise a forewale 10 formed of a single length of leather or similar inaterial bent longitudinally upon itself so that a cylindrical tube is formed, this tube being stufi'ed preferably with straw 11 in order to make the collar conform more readily to necks of various animals than were the fore- Wale stuffed with hair or thelike, The edges 12 of the fore-Wale are extended in parallelism as shown and secure between their opposing faces the after-Wale 13. The

after-Wale is formed preferably of 'tWo lengths of material placed one upon the v rnEU ATIo-nonsmconmin.

contact with an animals'neck. -wit hin each pocket is an air sack 17 this ,air sack' being'formed of rubber or like yielding material and conforming in conand a line of stitching 14: passed. throng-lithe overlapping edges of bothfor'e-wale, and

after-Wale to rigidly secure the parts -to-- gether. The outer edges, of the blanks are extended in parallelisnias shown at 15 and are secured together by 'a line of stitching 16, the edges thus'secured together t'orming a seam of'considerable' depth which will per--.

'forin the function-of a guide for the hereinafter described air sack valve.

[It will beobserved by referring to Fig. l

thatjthe after wale forms two separate pockets and these "pockets are oppositely arranged upon the fore-wale and are designed for Arranged Specification of 'L etters Patent.- Patented luhe .I .1 Applicationfilednugustfi,1910;"Seria1No.578,624. r

I other anditheirl inner meeting; edges inter-' posed. between t h -'edge s 'qf the rorewaie tour to the inner contour of the pocket. In

order to-make the sack conform more comfortably to the animals neck than usual, the

outer wall ofeach sack is provided with a reinforcing strip of material 18', thus cans-- ing the outer wall to be less flexiblethan the-inner wall. a The outer wallof the alter wale will thus not yield to an abnormal ex tent when the strain of the hames comes readily to everystrain and therefore be comfortable'to the animals neck. Each air sack is equipped with an air inlet valve 19 of any preferred construction, this-"valve be- 15 of the pocket and being of such height as not toextendbeyond the extreme ends of these edges. It will be observed that the seam formed by the edges15 extends on either side of the valve and prevents contact of adjacent'articles with the valve 'while the valve by extending between adjacent strands of the lacing 16 ispositively held,

against movement.

In order to prevent rotting of 'theair sacks,v from sweat or heat gaining access from the pocket walls to the sack, a waterproof fZIbIiC'QO is loosely wrapped about each sack, this fabric being preferably of that class known as slicker clot-h. By loosely, wrapping this clot-h about the air sack, radiation of heat from the walls of the pocket to the sack will be reduced to a much greater extent than were a solid tube ot flexible waterproof material interposed between the sack and pocket walls.

upon it while the inner-wall will yield quite A still further object 1s to-forn the seams" ing passed out between the opposing edges l It will be seen from the abOYG description that a pneumatic horse collar has been provided in which the outer walls of the collar will not yield abnormally to external strain while the inner Walls will yield quite readily and be comfortable to the animals neck and that the air sack of each pocket will be much more durable than the air sacks of ordinary collars by virtue of the waterproof fabric loosely wrapped aboiit each sack preventing access of moisture or radiation of heat from the pocket Walls to the sack, and further still that the air inlet valve of the sack is positively held against movement and is protected from injury by virtue of the seam formed at the meeting edges of the pocket walls.

What is claimed is A horse collar comprising oppositely disposed pockets, an inflated air sack in each pocket and a slicker cloth loosely wrapped about each sack in a plurality of convolutions.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

FRED BATCHLER. 

